The UK-based anti-landmines group was honored with the 2025 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest annual humanitarian award for nonprofits.
Hiding my face from the horrors of the world might protect me from them to some degree, but it also removes me from the beauty that might emerge and from my own call to respond to the heartache.
Vatican II brought us closer to the truth that the church is not a hierarchy but the whole people of God. As the world changes, our conscious listening should bring us closer to the realities faced by vulnerable groups.
Dublin-born Mercy Sr. Mary Killeen has spent nearly five decades transforming lives in one of Kenya's most impoverished corners. Her story is a tapestry of faith, grit and relentless service — a testament to the power of small acts done with great love.
"We don't have a national peace movement as it relates to nuclear weapons… It just went off people's radar," said Sr. Carol Gilbert, a prominent anti-nuclear activist.
The new foreign agents law in El Salvador is "a copy of the one in Nicaragua with the same objectives of social control and control of criticism against human rights abuses," said one political analyst.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition share their experience living through Myanmar's civil war since the country's military seized power in 2021.
What's happening in our country is creating fear or indifference in us, so much so that we are "crossing the street" to avoid extending compassion and care to those in need.
